Bon Gusto Caffe in City of London, Westminster

Great experience with Italian food

The place is simply magnificent! We wandered in by chance and were happy to be positively surprised! A very cozy family establishment! The service is excellent! Wide selection of wines and drinks, incl. from Italy. Well, the kitchen is beyond praise! I want to come back again and again.

We had a quick, but nice family lunch after visiting around! The lady serving us was lovely, unfortunately I didn’t get her name, but I would like to say thank you for your hospitality! 🙏

Everything was pretty good, the food was very good and the service was very friendly.

Excellent Italian in London, we went there twice in a row 👍🏼😊

Very poor experience. If I have to rate the food from 1-10, I’ll rate it -2. We ordered 4 dishes and the table was so small that there wasn’t even space for our plates to eat .

Amazing food!! Great prices, the staff was very friendly.

The staff was actively really rude and food was not great at all. Everything was very greasy and made me feel sick.

P/L is not OK. £19.50 for a spaghetti carbonara that won't fill you up. The pizzas also have very different toppings, some too little and others too much. Still a nice restaurant with nice staff.

Delicious food. Pizza bon gusto recommended! Nice wine. Friendly service really great.

Very nice restaurant, the food is really amazing and the service is perfect, friendly, polite. We enjoyed it a lot.

Friendly service, food came very quickly and above all very tasty!! I would happily recommend it

I really don't understand the rating given to this restaurant. The staff is friendly but the food really doesn't live up to the rating of this place. For my part I took seafood pasta for £31.90. How is it that at this price 70% of the seafood used is frozen??! Concerning the second course, a steak of salmon with a tasteless shrimp sauce accompanied by potatoes, asparagus, no taste / no seasoning, in short, a school canteen dish which is certainly not worth £26. I do not recommend this restaurant.

The restaurant is really nice and cozy. The staff is amazing, when we arrived they were full but they did everything they could to get us a table which was really nice to see. The food is absolutely delicious, the best paste I've eat in a while. The carbonara are just delicious, highly recommend.

Excellent flavors!! We LOVED the mushroom chicken, pizza with spicy sausage, and garlic focaccia bread. The environment was festive, relaxing yet energetic. Definitely recommend

Very well eaten! Very kind and caring staff! I recommend!

Best carb pasta I've ever eaten

Good place to eat a good plate of pasta or a pizza. Everything is very correct. The service is the same, correct without further ado.

The food was very tasty. I highly recommend it 👌.

Tourist skinning service. Pizza cannot be said to be of high quality. Grinning server.

Food is good comforting & flavoursome homemade Italian fare, service is quite good but not very friendly (we’ve been a couple of times now) ; main meal portions are small for the prices but very tasty. Good wine selection & an exceptional tiramisu.

The mussels dish is unexpectedly big - over 30 of them. The sauce is quite fishy in taste which sometimes overshadows the sweet taste of the mussels, slightly better with lemon juice. The sand haven’t been cleared from the mussels though so after the bites I need to spit the sand out. The mushroom risotto is well with a good texture and the sauce is just savory and creamy enough. Maybe better to share the risotto though as towards the end the taste became too heavy with the thick risotto sauce.

Nice food and friendly helpful staff.

Happened into this restaurant to grab dinner after a tour of Buckingham Palace and wanted to avoid the rain. Immediately seated, even with the place full to bursting. Service was excellent and food was quick and delicious. Thanks for a wonderful evening!

Such a lovely evening at this restaurant; service was great, the food was absolutely delicious and the Gavi wine was to die for!! 5 stars all round! Highly recommended, you won’t be disappointed!

The portions are big and the food is a real quality, however, it was a bit pricy. Professional service.

Pizza with anchovies (unfortunately very salty), but still delicious. The dessert was heavenly, definitely worth trying.

Este restaurante estaba a la vuelta de la esquina de mi hotel y yo estaba buscando una buena comida antes de ir al teatro. La comida era preciosa. El servicio fue rápido y amable. Muy recomendable.

Located near Buckingham Palace. Room with simple decoration, tables with acceptable separation and good set-up. Very friendly, diligent staff with a perfect knowledge of what's going on in the kitchen. Well-prepared Italian cuisine menu with pasta cooking points and good quality products. Delicious scallops with bacon, spaghetti with clams, scalopini with marsala and delicious afogato, good coffee. Fair wine list but with good references at a good price and good glasses. A place to return.....

The food is really excellent, an original Italian restaurant. I definitely recommend.

Excellent restaurant, freshly cooked and good sized portions. I would definitely go back. 10/10

We have been rejected in a fairly unfriendly way because we had a dog. I can understand that and am happy with it but the way it was done was seriously unpleasant.

My family and I dined here for lunch. Actually, I just finished my meal. This is without doubt one of the best Italian restaurants I've eaten at. The service and meals were awesome 👌🏾

Amazing and fresh Italian cuisine

Quería llevar a la familia de Escocia y del extranjero a un restaurante italiano lejos de las 'zonas turísticas' mundanas de Leicester Square y The Strand y, después de un par de horas de búsqueda en línea, encontré Bon Gusto. No nos decepcionó; la comida era excelente y el servicio / atención igualmente. Su ubicación no es mi localidad, pero volveré, simplemente porque era excelente relación calidad-precio!

The food is good but the service is not good. At first, we just went there without reservation. One of the staff told us it’s fully booked and there is no table for us. But the fact is only few tables being reserved while the other empty tables are not. Then we made a reservation via Google Map immediately and told them we had reservation. Another staff, who is nice and kind and served us whole time, let us in this time. But they didn’t confirm my booking. Then how do they know if I really reserved? At the same time, we just saw other people who also didn’t reserve the table just walked in, sat down and enjoyed their meal;) We are really disappointed with their service besides the staff who served us whole time.

Great food and the staff was amazing!!

We were looking for a place to eat before going to go see our show. I’m glad we walked a few minutes to go here as the food did not disappoint. The salmon was delicious as well as the pasta. And the tiramisu to finish off the meal was excellent.

Great Italian restaurant in London, delicious, home made food, friendly and professional service, good location. Recommended

As usual for bon gusto 10/10 food and service, even without reservations Geisa sat us on a window table, and was very polite and friendly with me and my fiend who never visited Bon Gusto before, Geisa advised us on the wine as well as main course that matched the wine we chose. Amazing atmosphere and banging playlist.

I’d like to call it a humble pasta—tomato and basil. It was absolutely delicious! The simplicity of the dish, combined with the flavorful herbs, truly elevated the experience and delighted my taste buds.🤤

The best food I had in London was here 👏🍻🍕

Nice ambience. We didn't have a booking but they managed to give us a table. Veal cotlet was nice, I would have preferred abit more salt in the veal. Risotto was nice, also needed some salt and lemon. Some of the mussels had crunchy bits in it which is basically because it wasn't cleaned properly. Overall, nice experience and good food. Calamari was nice. Chicken ceaser salad was good but the portion is too little for the price paid, comparing to prices of other dishes that has more ingredients in it than just lettuce and chicken.

Very good Seafood Risotto. The coffee is excellent.

Craving delicious Italian cuisine near Buckingham Palace? Don't hesitate for a moment! I recommend! 👌

Visit the restaurant based on the Google rating ... it was great and I recommend the restaurant

We chose this restaurant based on the strong Yelp reviews and proximity to our hotel. We had just arrived in London from the West Coast, USA, and were tired. The warm hospitality, gracious service and delicious well-prepared and presented dishes made us feel right at home. A real neighborhood gem! We returned for a second visit with friends - another wonderful experience! Thank you to all the staff at Bon Gusto!

Delicious food, good service, wonderful atmosphere complete with good music. I recommend to everyone. Thanks for the welcome!

My husband and I recently had dinner at Bon Gusto, not knowing anything about the food. We were hungry for good Italian food and we found it. I grew up with Italian god parents who made their own pasta and sauce. I was impressed by the texture of the pasta and flavor of the sauce. My husband had the ravoli, and I had the pasta with spinach and ricotta cheese with a tomato and cream sauce. It was excellent. The best meal we've had in London. Great restaurant!

The pizza was very delicious, the salad was very small but everything was delicious. What bothered me is that they charge you a 7.5% service charge.

The pizza was very delicious, the salad was very small but everything was delicious. What bothered me is that they charge you a 7.5% service charge.

Outstanding dinner and only 7 minutes from our hotel. We had the garlic bread, pan fried scallops and the pasta with sausage, mushrooms and artichokes. Gelato for dessert. Good wine selection. Highly recommend 👍👍

The staff was nice, but the food was unsatisfying. Fake carbonara!!

The staff was nice, but the food was unsatisfying. Fake carbonara!!

A good option for Italian food in London. We opted for pizza and Caesar salad, which were both very delicious. The place has a very pleasant atmosphere and the service is correct, without further ado.

Really good food. Lovely service. Lobster pasta was a little underwhelming in presentation but delicious. Garlic bread was amazing.

Expensive, like everything in London. But it's worth it. 2 minutes from Buckingham Palace

Excellent food, the pasta and gnocchi cooked well and the liver was delicious. I recommend this Italian restaurant

I made a reservation and visited! Vongole is really delicious and the pizza is great! The risotto has a strong cheese-mushroom flavor, so there may be some people who like it or not! The staff brought us bowls for the seashells, provided wet wipes, and took our orders right away, so they were very friendly! Be sure to visit. The food tastes even better thanks to the friendly staff.

Great food, excellent service. Friendly staff made us feel welcome. We ordered from the handwritten menu. The orrichiette pasta was divine. Forgot to take pics.

Very good Italian food, important if you pay by card in all places in London you must pay £15, a hazing takes cash.

Amazing food and great service.

Very very good, the pizzas, pasta and salad are excellent! Staff taking good care of customers and their expectations

Its very simple pasta dishes. I think the genvese beef I had was beautiful but the cacio pepe is very rich. The lemonade is not lemonade in the classic sense but lemoney soda. I would clarify what is what to make sure you get what you are expecting. Staff was slow to come by with the bill. Great if you have time to chat as a group, but not if you have to be somewhere timely

"At Bon Gusto our aim is to produce good honest Italian food at honest prices, with a warm and friendly family feel we look forward to serving you." Definitely good food, we had starters and mains, both of which were very Italian and delicious. My wife lad the risotto which was very buttery but tasted amazing. My salad nazurro was surprisingly filling. Excellent wine and coffee at the end. Service was warm and friendly.

Pretty average ravioli and focaccia

Great service, amazing food, and a nice setting. Starters, main, dessert, and a drink for under £50 so very reasonable for a central London location. Highly recommend the gnocchi and chocolate mousse.

We had a delicious meal at Bon Gusto. Great Italian food and very good service. We highly recommend this restaurant!

Pizza bon gusto and the seafood risotto great

Very nice location. Super nice employees. The food was very good and the portion size was great. Highly recommended for people with gluten intolerance. The offer is really great, at least by German standards. Unfortunately, we had a bit of time pressure due to a guided tour afterwards and would have liked to have stayed longer. But there's another day coming.

Nice atmosphere, excellent service (Service fee included). I had the mushroom risotto which was poor; bland with poor composition. The rest of my party was happy with their meals.

Having traveled all over Italy for 2 months, I can confidently say this is a REAL Italian food place. From the bread, salads, pasta, pizza, and desserts, everything was delicious 😋 And add to that friendly and uplifting staff, this made one of our best meals while visiting London. A huge shout out to Silvia, who was extra friendly and lively with us. Would definitely return!

The food and ambience were nice however we weren’t told that we had the table for a certain duration (on the booking confirmation or on the day itself). Despite of this, we were pressured multiple times during our visit to leave. While we still had two full glasses of wine we were brought the bill and were expected to pay with an unfriendly face.

Family owned, great real Italian dishes! I had a special with wild boar in delicious pasta, my wife had a salmon entrée and my whole family loved the deserts. Great service and atmosphere. Would absolutely recommend and revisit.

I recommend. Probably the best pizza in London. Italians run the pizzeria. 😀

Below average food, overly kitsch vibe, pricey for what it is, would not recommend

Small Italian restaurant with Italian staff. Very authentic. Ingredients very fresh and good choice

Very unfriendly, and an unsolicited 12.5 percent tip on the bill. And the pizzas are very mediocre.

Fresh, flavorful foods. Very Italian. Enough said.

£10 for one glass of wine so it was expensive even for London. Food was good but nothing to write home about. Quite small portions. The tiramisu was excellent however.

I have frequented many Italian restaurants, but I believe that this one in London is truly exceptional. The authentic cuisine is prepared with great care and always tastes fresh. The restaurant is consistently busy, a testament to its quality, so I highly recommend making a reservation. The staff has always been welcoming and attentive, ensuring that every visit is memorable. As someone with a deep appreciation for Italian cuisine, I can confidently say that the food at Bon Gusto never fails to impress me.

I came after reading the review and the noodles were undercooked. The squid was hard because it was undercooked. Still, the female staff was very friendly. Very tasty appearance but not so delicious taste.. It's a pity. The cost of cola and pasta is around 60,000 won.

Delicious food, perfect customer service.

Best dining experience in London. Ducked in from the rain 🌧️ and never wanted to leave. Everything was perfect ☺️

Delicious authentic Italian food with very friendly staff and service

Great Italian food! Make a reservation to avoid being turned away 🙂

Amazing food - expensive for normal tourists

Food is very good. It’s quite like original Italian. The clam spaghetti is really tasty too. It’s just a bit pricey and very busy. But considering Buckingham Palace is just next door, you might not find better restaurants around here.

Today, we had the chance to try the Pizza of the Month, and we were not disappointed. The new flavors were amazing—chorizo with goat cheese was a perfect choice! Definitely stop by if you're on your way to Buckingham Palace.

Small restaurant, very calm and nice atmosphere, the food was great and the service were friendly ❤️ highly recommended

Nice atmosphere, great service and delicious food. The only thing is a little expensive but overall very happy

I am utterly appalled by the experience my family and I had. On a sunny Sunday afternoon around 4 PM, we sat down on the completely empty outside tables, looking forward to a pleasant time together. However, we were informed that the terrace was not being served, which was perplexing considering the beautiful weather and ample seating available. The situation only worsened when we were rudely told by the waitress that Bon Gusto is a "restaurant" and not a place for just dessert and coffee, which they assumed I wanted from merely glancing at the dessert menu. We were then condescendingly advised to visit the coffee shop across the street if we wanted just coffee. As someone who works in high-end hospitality, I was shocked by this treatment. What truly broke my heart was my 2-year-old daughter's excitement for ice cream, which was cruelly dashed by the staff's disgusting behavior. The level of rudeness and lack of basic customer service skills displayed was staggering. This experience raises serious concerns about the service standards and potential discriminatory practices at Bon Gusto. Such behavior not only reflects poorly on the establishment but also potentially breaches UK customer service regulations and consumer rights. It’s distressing to think how many other customers might have been subjected to this kind of treatment. I sincerely hope the management takes immediate action to rectify these glaring issues. No family should have to endure such a disappointing and degrading experience.

Fantastic food, you can feel like in Italy! 🍲🇮🇹😍🍕🥘🍝🍦

It was pure chance but a lucky one that I ended up in this restaurant. The people who worked there were great particularly John who took my order. By the way John I was right about Atalanta winning the Europa Cup. The food and wine was tasty and enjoyable and the atmosphere was great. A great end to the day, and I aim to go back solo or with friends

The attention and service of the place was very good and we had a pleasant dinner

Quickly seated and great service. decore was interesting and the food was above average but not exceptional.

The lasagna was some of the best I have ever had in a restaurant. The service was great. Would have been 5 stars, but they did charge extra for bread (€3.90 without oil and vinegar or €4.90 with) which was surprising, and the soft drinks were expensive (€4 for small bottle). But, I will be back.

The food was satisfying, but not prepared with any excitement or love. We had a salad niçoise and it was edible, but not tasty. We began cantaloupe wrapped in prosciutto. The melon was hard and not ripe. Still, though, it was a nice respite from a full day of touring.

We had lunch at Bon Gusto with colleagues today and we were all very happy. I ordered the spaghetti with clams and they were delicious. I would stay here again!

Nice food nice place many thanks for mis Marianna to service as .. I recommend to visit this Bon Gusto